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...less sexual contacts over the course of a year with AIDS-infected partners, only one-third contracted the disease. In a longer study the same percentage held up among women who had sex more than 600 times with infected partners. Since 1 percent of random males carry the AIDS bug, a woman thus would have to have 60,000 encounters with different American men to have even a one-third risk of catching the disease...
Genetic engineers hope a new blue bug that can be easily tracked in the field will reduce public fears. -- Measuring ancient air in amber...
Efforts to contain Lyme disease are under way. In an attempt to disrupt the tick's life cycle, Harvard researchers have developed cardboard tubes containing insecticide-treated cotton that attract nesting mice and keep them bug-free. Meanwhile, work has begun on a vaccine and a urine test that may provide earlier diagnosis than the current blood test. Until a vaccine is available, however, the best protection is wearing long pants tucked into socks when walking in brushy areas -- or even in the backyard...
Will He, Or Won't He?: Last spring it seemed that new Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and former Governor of Pennsylvania, Richard L. Thornburgh, had given up politics for academia. But then the four-year bug which has already afflicted more than a dozen of the nation's political leaders bit him: the Presidency...
Will He, Or Won't He?: Last spring it seemed that new Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and former Governor of Pennsylvania, Richard L. Thornburgh, had given up politics for academia. But then the four-year bug which has already afflicted more than a dozen of the nation's political leaders bit him: the Presidency...